Professor Michael Fultz
Professor of Educational Policy Studies
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Department of Educational Policy Studies
243 Education Building
1000 Bascom Mall
Madison, Wisconsin 53706
Tel: (608) 263-2091
Email: fultz@education.wisc.edu
Doctoral Degree:
Harvard Graduate School of Education, Ed.D., 1987.
Academic Areas of Interest:
Dr. Fultz's primary research and teaching interests are in the areas of African American educational history, the history of American education, and urban educational policy.
Current Research Projects:
Dr. Fultz's current research project is an investigation of the history of African American teachers in the South from the post-Civil War period through the 1960s. This project builds upon earlier work focusing on the "educational vision" of the Black middle class during the 1900-1930 period.
Recent and Representative Publications:
“Caught Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Dissolution of Black State Teachers Associations, 1954-1970,” in Linda C. Tillman (ed.), The SAGE Handbook of African American Education, (Los Angeles: SAGE, 2009).
"As Is the Teacher, So Is the School’: Future Directions in the Historiography of African American Teachers,” in William J. Reese and John L. Rury (eds.), Rethinking the History of American Education (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2008), 73-102.
Michael Fultz and Anthony Brown, “Historical Perspectives on African American Males as Subjects of Education Policy,” American Behavioral Scientist, 51(7), March 2008, 854-871.
"Black Public Libraries in the South in the Era of De Jure Segregation," Libraries and the Cultural Record, 41(3), Summer 2006, 337-359.
"The Displacement of Black Educators Post-Brown: An Overview and Analysis," History of Education Quarterly , 44(1), Spring 2004, 11-45. Click here for link to article.
"Charleston , 1919-1920: The Final Battle in the Emergence of the South’s Urban African-American Teaching Corps," Journal of Urban History, 27(5), July 2001, 633-649. Click here for link to article.
"Teacher Training and African American Education in the South, 1900-1940," Journal of Negro Education, 64(2), Spring 1995, 196-207. Click here for link to article.
"African-American Teachers in the South, 1890-1940: Powerlessness and the Ironies of Expectations and Protest," History of Education Quarterly 35(4), Winter 1995, 401-422. Click here for link to article.
"African-American Teachers in the South, 1890-1940: Growth, Feminization, and Salary Discrimination," Teachers College Record, 96(3), Spring 1995, 544-568.
